List of photobooks by photographer Umbrico, Penelope

Penelope Umbrico (born in Philadelphia, 1957) graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images.
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Umbrico works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.” Identifying image typologies—candy-colored horizons and sunsets, books used as props—she brings the farcical, surreal nature of consumerism to new light.

She has participated extensively in solo and group exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Umbrico is core faculty in the School of Visual Arts MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Program.

She lives in New York City.